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The postgresql81 Portfile 57375 2009-09-10 08:16:41Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: postgresql81
Version: 8.1.18
Category: databases
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: mww jwa
Description: The most advanced open-source database available anywhere
Long Description: PostgreSQL is Object-Relational Database Management System. It supports almost all SQL constructs, including transactions, subselects, and user-defined types and functions. Write-ahead logging means increased performance while retaining data integrity.

Homepage: http://www.postgresql.org/
Master Sites: http://ftp3.de.postgresql.org/pub/Mirrors/ftp.postgresql.org/source/v${version}/ postgresql:source/v${version}

Checksums: md5 13096f3eb85317fee59667e25508f71d sha1 d745b9d8bda3c0d4500c1d4760139a8ea964c760 rmd160 07d162543cd052c9e836d9f84a81fe6fe9f92748

use_bzip2 yes
distname postgresql-${version}

depends_lib port:readline port:openssl port:zlib port:libxml2 port:libxslt
depends_build port:bison

set libdir ${prefix}/lib/${name}
configure.args --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc/${name} --bindir=${libdir}/bin --libdir=${libdir} --includedir=${prefix}/include/${name} --datadir=${prefix}/share/${name} --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --without-docdir --with-includes=${prefix}/include --with-libraries=${prefix}/lib --with-openssl --with-bonjour --with-readline --with-zlib --enable-thread-safety --enable-integer-datetimes

build.type gnu
build.target

test.run yes
test.target check

livecheck.type regex
livecheck.url ${homepage}
livecheck.regex (8.1.\[0-9\]+)

set contribs "dblink fulltextindex fuzzystrmatch pg_buffercache pg_trgm pgcrypto tsearch2 vacuumlo xml2"

post-build {
foreach contrib ${contribs} {
system "cd ${worksrcpath}/contrib/${contrib}/ && ${build.cmd}"
}
}

post-destroot {
foreach contrib ${contribs} {
system "echo contrib: \"${contrib}\""
system "cd ${worksrcpath}/contrib/${contrib}/ && ${destroot.cmd} install ${destroot.destdir} && touch DONE"
}
system "cd ${destroot}${prefix}/bin && ln -sf ${libdir}/bin/psql psql81"
file delete -force ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name} ${destroot}${prefix}/share/man
}

Variant: python description {add support for python} {
depends_lib-append port:python24
configure.args-append --with-python
configure.env-append PYTHON=${prefix}/bin/python2.4
}

Variant: krb5 description {add support for Kerberos 5 authentication} {
# depends_lib-append bin:kerberos:kerberos5
configure.args-append --with-krb5
}

Variant: perl description {add Perl support} {
depends_lib-append bin:perl:perl5
configure.args-append --with-perl
}

post-install {
ui_msg "\nTo use the postgresql server, install the postgresql81-server port"
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/postgresql81
%  sudo port install postgresql81  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching postgresql81
--->  Verifying checksum for postgresql81
--->  Extracting postgresql81
--->  Configuring postgresql81
--->  Building postgresql81 with target all

--->  Staging postgresql81 into destroot

--->  Installing postgresql81

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using postgresql81 with these commands:

%  man postgresql81
%  apropos postgresql81
%  which postgresql81
%  locate postgresql81

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